1. 'There are ten cases, O Bhikkhus, in which the taking of votes is invalid; and ten in which the taking of votes is valid.

'Which are the ten in which the taking of votes is invalid? When the matter in dispute is trivial 2--when the case has not run its course (that is, when. the necessary preliminaries of submission to arbitration have not been carried out 3)--when regarding the matter in dispute the Bhikkhus have not formally remembered, or been formally called upon to remember, the offence 4--when the taker of votes 5 knows that those whose opinions are not in accordance with the law will be in the majority,

or probably 1 may be in the majority--when he knows that the voting will result in a schism in the Samgha--when he is in doubt whether the voting will result in a schism in the Samgha--when the votes are irregularly given 2--when all do not vote equally 3--and when they do not vote in accordance with the view (which they really hold). These are the ten cases in which the voting is invalid 4.